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Migration of Exchange 2003 from Phyiscal to Virtual Server - advice?

Zones: Exchange Email Server, Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005

Tags: Microsoft, Exchange 2003, Standard (Service Pack 2)

I am relativley new to Exchange and Server Administration. However, I am looking at migrating my company Exchange 2003 server (SP2) onto a Virtual Server (Windows Virtual Server R2).

The current setup involves 1 Main Server, call it "A".

We currnetly have 'A' running Server 2003 SP2 with Exchange 2003 (SP2) and all fully up to date patches released. 'A' also acts as the domain controller for the business.

The plan is to move Exchange and all of its components to a Virtual Server, which is currently running Server 2003 (All updates and Service Packs installed). Call this 'E'.

Essentially, E is ready to go, I have followed Exchange 2003 installation instructions precisley (updates, service packs, tools). It is currently connected on our domain "HT.local".

The big question now goes along the lines of:

"At this stage I am kind of stuck. Being new to this I am not sure how to "migrate" the Exchange running on 'A' over to running on 'E' and then decommission the original. The other downside is that 'A' is currently a live environment so I have to be careful in what I'm doing. Is what I'm trying to achieve going to be very risky or even doable? If not and it seems straight forward, are there any guides/articles/advice which may help me in my task?"

Thanks in advance to any experts who take time out to help this struggling noobie!

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Zone: Software

Question Asked By: HantsTrust

Solution Provided By: mukulag

Participating Experts: 1

Solution Grade: B

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